ARE AMBULANCE VEHICLES IN BAD CONDITION?
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Willemstad, Curacao. According to ABVO Vice President: Mr. Kenneth Bremer, the situation in which the ambulances of Curacao find themselves, are deplorable. ABVO is the General Union of Government Employees (in Dutch: Algemene Bond van Overheidspersoneel)
KENNETH BREMER
Among other things Bremer declared; “The situation with the ambulance continues, we have talked about this situation for a long time. We said that a commission was coming to deal with some things. Right now, without the commission dealing with things, the management decided to go with decentralization. We are saying that you can go to decentralization but you have to deal with what has to be dealt with. This means that the materials must be in place, each post (location) must have its own medicine cabinet and must have enough ambulance to take care of things.”
What is decentralization?
According to Bremer; “When the pandemic happened, when COVID started, it was said that they (the hospital) will start with Centralization, where everyone (ambulance) will go to Zakito area (the main location where the support staff are located in addition to the prepared ambulances). From Zakito, they (the ambulance) will go to their post (locations), so that you (the ambulance) would have enough materials to deal with things. They (ambulance workers) can wear the special clothing. An ambulance was designated to attend especially to COVID-19. Our big question is, if you (the hospital) want to decentralize, you must have everything in place at the Bandabou post (west location) and at the xxx Bandariba post (east location), for you to deal with it (with COVID19). Now we ask, COVID left or COVID is still here?”
Bremer also said; “You must ensure the safety of people and workers. The way you deal with the disease. When you decentralize, if you don't take the disease into account, you (the hospital) will again spread the disease everywhere. You will spread it everywhere when you start using the whole ambulance for this (to deal with COVID-19)”
Regarding why the ambulance workers don't want to work, Bremer explained; “Each stall (location) does not have its first aid kit (medicine cabinet). That's one. When you decentralize, you will find that all the people who have all the diseases can go to each post (location) and you don't have enough ambulance vehicles so that you can designate an ambulance for each post (location) to treat CORONA disease.”
Regarding the poor state of the ambulance vehicles, where the lights of the ambulance vehicles do not come on or the doors do not want to close properly, Bremer certified; “This is what we have said, because for the last 3 or 4 years, we have said that new ambulance vehicles should be purchased. Ideally, you (the hospital) have 6 ambulance vehicles and have 1 backup. Right now, there are 4 ambulance vehicles, which if they pass the approval (keuring) test, we don't know if all 4 will pass the approval (keuring) test.”
Ambulance workers are worried, there seems to be concern about the lack of ambulance vehicles to deal with emergencies. Bremer explained; “As a responsible union, we always make sure that there is an ambulance to serve the people of Curacao. Right now we are going to a meeting. We will deal with what needs to be discussed with management. During the meeting the members of the union will be there to discuss what the needs of the ambulance are and after that, we will inform them, to see how we continue.”
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